{"id":55948,"date":"2018-08-28T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55948"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:25:23","slug":"a-dark-inheritance-blood-race-and-sex-in-colonial-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55948","title":{"rendered":"A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300225556\/dark-inheritance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yale University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2018-08-28<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\n6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4<br \/>\n25 b\/w illus.<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780300225556<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookennewman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brooke N. Newman<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History; Associate Director of the Humanities Research Center<br \/>\n<em>Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300225556\/dark-inheritance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/A1tXjnIHpwL.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamaica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain\u2019s<\/a> most valuable colony in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americas<\/a> by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focusing on Jamaica, Britain\u2019s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,8,17,6940,10],"tags":[4430,4431,80,1424],"class_list":["post-55948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-uk","tag-brooke-n-newman","tag-brooke-newman","tag-jamaica","tag-yale-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56421,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55948\/revisions\/56421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}